Posts tagged with:ideas

The smartphone update cycle is at a stop. Innovation has stopped and people do not hurry to buy the new phone, as the changes from year to year are not spectacular enough. So other than all eyes on China and other emerging markets, other ideas are nowhere to be found. NFC is sort-of dead, mobile […]

You go at 20 conferences a year. You have 3-4 workshops a year. When do you have time to experiment and find new ideas to speak of at these events? Do you have new ideas and experiences to tell? Or do you just rewrite what the big boys have found out a year ago and […]

Usually, when a startup builds a service/app/site/whatever, their goal is to make it the best ever, so that it attracts users and make money. The big company launches a service with money in mind at every step, the user being third or lower on the list. Google’s Evernote clone and Microsoft’s Bing are just two […]

A 17-year old coder is launching a chrome extension to filter out from my personal twitter stream all the references to my favorite shows, so I can’t see the spoilers in case I miss an episode. How it works is I write in the extensions all the tv shows I will probably miss and then […]

Dustin Curtis looks back at two ideas he thought were stupid when he heard them and turned out to be great. Happens a lot. Right now a lot of people are thinking the same about Google Glass, but they are not saying it, because it might turn out to be a huge hit, despite being […]

Our good friend Vivi is looking for ideas and recently i found a good one. Every clothing and perfume brand has an online store with a database a consumer can check for fake products. But every brand has it’s own online site and not everybody can go with a laptop and mobile internet shopping. So […]

Some time ago i found myself talking with heads of a investment fund looking for opportunities to invest in the Romanian internet. Aside my legendary gloom and discomfort with the way things are going in this industry, we tried to find unconquered niches to exploit (please remember this was a 2010 discussion, some things may […]

One friend slipped on the stairs and hit her head. We got her to the hospital and, rather and wait at the state hospital, someone made a call and got her a private doctor to see her. The call was made to a person I have adviced one time on some internet moves and, rather […]

Most of the times i get asked to write about an event or a new shop opening, i ask a very simple question. Why would anyone be interested in reading this? And most of the times people tend to freeze. Well, we opened our shop and we are new. Ok, that is not a story […]

Ok, early adopters and google fans got in. Now what? How long before this cheap imitation of Facebook will look for new ideas as it fades away, just like buzz and wave?